Francesco Maria De Regi is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists Francesco Maria De Regi as Italian mathematician.
Francesco Maria De Regi was born at Milan in 1720.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
Francesco Maria De Regi died in 1794, aged 74. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
